Benchmark report
Task verified
11m 39s elapsed
The saved attempt met the documented success criterion.
86/ 100
Agent-Ready- AInstall
- AAuth
- SExecute
- ADocs
- SCurrent
Chasing keyless access after the first key request timed out: api.exa.ai returned a 402 x402 crypto payment challenge and mcp.exa.ai was proxy-blocked (403), costing ~8 of 9.8 minutes.
Where the time went
8:00 on the owner · 3:39 agent time- Starting0:01
- Research0:10
- Attempt2:23
- Verify1:05
Judge reason
Saved code /workspace/home/exa-search/search.py POSTs {"query": "PostgreSQL transaction isolation levels", "numResults": 5} to the documented operation https://api.exa.ai/search with an x-api-key header (docs: exa.ai/docs/reference/search.md, fetched 200 in transcript). Evidence search_response.json records HTTP 200 with the documented shape: requestId 543550ddbf776d3545ce315d65e06d3e, 5-item results array, searchTime 1988.4, costDollars {total 0.007, neural 0.007}, plus live Cloudflare response headers (Cf-Ray a4aa4cbf6f748969-PDX, X-Request-Id matching requestId, Date Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:17:52 GMT matching the transcript tool-result timestamp 23:17:52.654Z). Stdout (transcript idx 84 and search_stdout.txt) prints 'First result title: PostgreSQL: Documentation: 18: 13.2. Transaction Isolation' and 'First result URL: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/transaction-iso.html', exactly matching results[0] in the response body; the script asserts status==200, nonempty results, nonempty title and an http(s)-prefixed URL. No mocking or hard-coding: the key is read at runtime from EXA_API_KEY_FILE, and the keyless attempt without it is saved returning HTTP 402 X402_PAYMENT_REQUIRED, confirming the 200 required real authentication.
Attempt record
- 9:36Answered from saved key: Exa API keyno wait
- —First success verified
Attempt artifacts saved.